Abstract Genetic analysis conducted by prominent scientists along with our own independent detailed genome analysis formally, using high density genotyped datasets indicates that Central Asian Iron-Age Indo-Iranic Scythians and Sarmatians played a significant role in the ethnogenesis of present day Kurds and a few other Iranic populations. This coincides with the introduction of Indo-Iranian languages […]

Overview: The flood of recently sequenced ancient DNA has tremendously increased our understanding of demography of various Eurasian modern populations. Thanks to the recently sequenced genomes in Damgaard et al, Narasimhan et al, Olaide et al, Lazaridis et al, and Mathieson et al, and the suite of tools within Admixtools, detailed in Patterson et al  […]